Mad_Cyril Tidal is great, I found most of what I wanted off Bandcamp on there.

Why don’t you buy it off bandcamp?

      Yant Yant, you’ve posted some shit in your time (Porsche trabs), but this takes the fucking shit biscuit.

        Thanks. Not looking for your approval or interested in your opinion.

          Yant I’m just giving you FACTS. you still buying loads of artist albums at £13 a pop, or trying out many albums for £10 a month?

          Porsche trabs? More like clown shoes.

          • Amps replied to this.

              I’m using Spotify, would rather use an alternative, but I like the playlists I follow in Spotify, so would miss that going elsewhere.

              I reckon 75% of what I listen to is in mixcloud or soundcloud.

              I used to get all music on iTunes and would pay for it. In India albums are about a £1.50-2.50, so I figure I might as well give back to the artist. Switched over to Apple Music for streaming for the passed 6 months, which is about a quid a month. My quality control has been switched on now, barely buy anything on iTunes.

              4 days later

              i was looking at other services yesterday, tidal looks like the best model, but they’re bloody expensive. for my wife and i it’s $30/month. for that price, i think i may just scrap paid streaming all together and just buy a new album every week on bandcamp. it’ll probably cost me less and all the money goes to the artists if they keep doing bandcamp fridays.

                303abuser Bandcamp-Fridays are first Friday of the month only though, but they still pay the artists well.

                    303abuser there is something appealing about this, as it would mean going back to the days of buying an album and actually listening to it multiple times. The amount of albums I wasn’t too fussed about on first listen, but a few listens later and I loved them. I’m guilty today in not giving albums enough listening time to appreciate them as on Spotify I tend to listen to far too much and bin stuff off too quickly

                    • Amps replied to this.

                        Homegrove yeah, i figure i’ll use the free plays to figure out what i want to buy and just save up purchases for once a month.

                        being an invalid for the last month has made me realize i spend too much time with tech and living a little more like it’s 25 years ago is a good idea. buy albums instead of streaming, make more music on hardware, use my phone for calls and work, read more and watch less, etc.

                          303abuser just buy a new album every week

                          Fuckin double defo, is the right answer!

                              RichM actually listening to it multiple times

                              Boom!

                                Amps and even one a week is a lot of music over the year. i love tech, but i hate these tech companies and their predatory business models. it’s time for me to change the way i do things.

                                  303abuser
                                  I only buy albums these days. And almost all of them I purchase from Bandcamp unless I can’t find it. In which case in get it from Juno.

                                    seems like a better idea to own things vs renting too.

                                    I’ll add to this the idea of a ‘process’ too. If you own the physical media, finding the cd or the vinyl, taking it out of the sleeve, putting it in / on and pressing play etc. gives you that level of interaction where you’re handling the thing, looking at the artwork, maybe reading the sleeve notes or the like, and I think it all helps with your involvement with the music, more so than clicking a bit of digital text on a screen.

                                      i really miss that part of it. i still have all of the gu sleeves and long boxes and it was part of the experience to unwrap it, read the liner notes while listening.